Gbb webbing top of the enclosure

I don't think this is a bad thing, but I just wanna make sure, I wont hurt her any by opening the container right? She seems to panic when I try cause it pulls on the web. She never webbed the top with these 'pillars' but now there are like 6

Very typical GBB behavior, particularly in enclosures that either don't have much height and floor space or it's cluttered/has objects close to the lid. Like how you have the fake plants going right up to the lid and so much moss on the bottom. They like to web on top of things.. leaf right by lid has gotta be webbed over..

It will not harm the spider to tear up the webbing. They sure do react to it though. It's a personal pet peeve of mine.. started to rehouse mine to enclosures with much more height and floor space and kept decorations 'low' as not to encourage lid-webbing. Not deep substrate, so far none of mine showed any inclination to dig & also to gain more height space. It's not fool proof though- some will attach some to the lid anyways. They really do love to web over everything.

I thought I was suppose to clutter it so that's why I did, but yeah she made it even worse over night XD

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That's a great thing to do for them actually! I think for this species it might be nice to give extra space between the top of the clutter and lid.

See what made me think "that's it. More space for this species".

in case it's not clear.. that's him doing a head stand and swinging his butt back and fro on the lid. He was determined to web up the whole lid. I was so surprised at the degrees they're able to twist their abdomens. It often went perfectly upside down as he worked.

That's a great thing to do for them actually! I think for this species it might be nice to give extra space between the top of the clutter and lid.

See what made me think "that's it. More space for this species".

in case it's not clear.. that's him doing a head stand and swinging his butt back and fro on the lid. He was determined to web up the whole lid. I was so surprised at the degrees they're able to twist their abdomens. It often went perfectly upside down as he worked.

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Thats the best part about GBBs, watching them do their webbing acrobatics.

I do love watching her web, weirdly enough the corner with the water bowl is generally never webbed, she webbed it once and destroyed it herself, she doesn't touch that corner. Not entirely sure why lol

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